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Had an interesting pricing experience with them a couple of years ago. We were happy with our Mesos/Marathon cluster of ~100-200 machines but needed some acute
by CoffeeDregs 9y ago
Had an interesting pricing experience with them a couple of years ago. We were happy with our Mesos/Marathon cluster of ~100-200 machines but needed some acute support and we were in the same investment fund of DCVC. Got on the phone with ... Sales... No problem; you're a friend of ours because of DCVC; we'll get you special, friendly pricing on DC/OS...
Got an email a few hours late: $100,000 per year. Was fairly puzzled.
Two hours later, I got another email correcting the prior price: the special, friendly price was now $150,000 per year.
We migrated to AWS ECS and all was well.
- pivotalpoint415 9y agoA lot of software vendors charge $X,000 / server / year in subscription fees. Redhat charges > $10,000 per physical server for their OpenShift and Pivotal gets for 100s of nodes often 7-figures. Remember just how much VMWare costs...